In above code, we get C:\ProgramData inLPCOMMAPPDATAFOLDER. The doc states that pFrom should be double null terminated. However the return value of the code is 0x2 i.e. ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND. What is wrong in the code above?

Answer:

You are not double nul terminating the pFrom.

You have a standard string (which includes the null terminator when you call .c_str() on it).

temp = std::wstring(lpFolderPath);

You then concatenate an empty string onto it:

temp+=L"\0\0";

This leaves the original string unchanged. This is because the std::string::operator+(const wchar_t*) takes a null terminated string. The fact that you have 2 nulls is immaterial it only reads up to the first null. It doesn't even add that null as what you've effectively given it is an empty string and the result of concatenating an empty string to something else is a no-op.

There's a few ways to solve this, but probably easiest is to change

temp+=L"\0\0";

to

temp.push_back(L'\0');

which explicitly adds another nul to the string so when you eventaully call temp.c_str() you'll get back the double nul-terminated string you need.

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